Children’s Literature is at the center of Dinah Johnson’s life. As Dr. Dianne Johnson-Feelings, she is a professor of English at the University of South Carolina. As Dinah, she is the author of beloved picture books including Quinnie Blue; All Around Town: The Photographs of Richard Samuel Roberts; Indigo Dreaming; and H is for Harlem, winner of a Boston Globe Horn Book honor for non-fiction and a Golden Kite honor from the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. Her Ida B. Wells Marches for the Vote won the Golden Kite award for best non-fiction text for younger readers. One of her absolute treasures is a note from a little girl who wrote to her after a school visit, “Dear Dinah Johnson, You had made my heart sing.”